| Prof. Simon D. Shorvon
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Simon Shorvon is currently Professor in Clinical Neurology at the
Institute of Neurology, University College London, Consultant Neurologist
at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Queen
Square London, and was also appointed as Director of the National
Neuroscience Institute in Singapore in 2001. He trained in medicine
and neurology in Cambridge, London, Manchester and Oxford. He has
specialised in epilepsy since 1976, and was appointed to the National
Hospital/Institute of Neurology in 1979 to establish an epilepsy
unit at Queen Square. He has worked there ever since, and has also
held the concurrent posts of Medical Director of the National Society
for Epilepsy at Chalfont between 1983 and 1998, and Chairman of
Clinical Neurology at the Institute of Neurology between 1998 and
2002. His research interests in epilepsy are in the fields of: epidemiology,
genetics, MRI imaging, health service research, clinical pharmacology
and status epilepticus.
Prof. Shorvon has worked on behalf of the ILAE in various capacities,
including Honorary Secretary of the British Branch from 1988-2000,
Chairman of the Commission of European Affairs from 1993-1997, Secretary
to the Commission on Developing Countries from 1991-3, and has been
a member of the Long Range Planning Commission and commission on
Economic Aspects of Epilepsy. He was second vice president of the
ILAE between 1993-7 and since then has held the post of ILAE Information
Officer. He was the founding editor of Epigraph in 1994 and has
sat on the Executive Committee of the ILAE since 1993.
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